Improvement in whip-sockets



J. W. H. DOUBLER.

Whip-Sockets.

Patented Oct-28,1873.

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JOHN W. H. DOUBLER, OF ALDEN, YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Nol44,072, dated October 28, 1873 application filed August 28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. H. DOUBLER, of Alden, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip-Sockets, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is a front view of my improved whip-socket; Fig. 2, a rear view, and Fig. 3 an end view, of the same.

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My invention relates to an improvement in that class of whip-sockets termed skeleton sockets; and it consists, first, in the employment of a peculiarly-shaped arm, extending the whole length of the socket, made skeleton in form, and provided with a clamp at its upper end, and the half of a seat or clamp for the reception of the butt or lower end of the whip at its lower end, in conjunction with a second shorter arm, hinged to the first clamping-arm below its center, the shorter arm having a clamp at its upper end to embrace the whip-handle near its middle, and the half of a seat or clamp at its lower end, to form, in connection with the corresponding one on the lower end of the longer arm, a seat or receptacle for the butt-end of the whip, the longer arm also being provided with curved or bent projections made to embrace one of the vertical standards of the frame of the dash-board. My invention further consists in the employment of a bent arm, embracing the standard of the frame of the dash-board, and attached to the longer arm of the skeleton socket near its center by a single screw or rivet, which, in connection with the curved projections at the upper and lower extremities of the long arm of the socket, embracing the standard of the frame of the dash-board, enables me to fasten the socket securely and rigidly to the dashboard, as is hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the longer arm of the socket, made skeleton in form, as clearly represented in the drawings, and provided at its upper end with the clamp B, and at its lower end with a similarly-formed clamp, made, preferably, slotted, as seen in the drawings, to give lightness and beauty to the socket. O O are bent pieces at the upper and lower ends of the longer arm, extending to its rear, the curved ends of which encircle the vertical standard D of the frame of the dashboard. At the middle, or thereabout, of the arm A it is flattened to receive a curved arm, 0, to the straight portion of which it is attached by a single screw, rivet, or its equivalent, the curved portion of the armembracing the standard of the dash-board.

By this construction, it will be seen that a cheap and secure fastening is obtained, while the socket can be readily removed or replaced.

E is the shorter arm of the socket, hinged to the longer arm of the socket, preferably, below its center, and provided at its upper end with the clamp F to embrace the upper part of the handle of the whip, and provided at its lower end with a slotted clamp, which, in connection with the similarly-slotted clamp on the lower end of the longer arm, forms the receptacle for the butt-end of the whip when serted in the socket, and firmly secures it therein.

.It'will be observed that, by making the arm E much shorter than the arm A, and hinging it thereto, I am enabled to insert the whiphandle into the socket very obliquely, WhlCh is not the case with the sockets as ordinarily constructed, their construction requirmgthe whip to beinsertedalmost perpendicularly 1nto the socket.

It will also be seen that the space is comparatively quite large between the upper ends of the two arms of the socket. These peculiarities of construction allow the insertion of the whip-handle into the socket to be performed more readily and easily than in other sockets, which is a desideratum.

When the butt-end of the whip-handle strikes the upper clamp of the shorter arm in insert ing it, it immediately opens the short arm to receive the handle, and as the butt-end of the whip reaches its seat at the lower end of the socket it closes to receive and bind it, and any pressure tending to open the hinged arm at either end is met by a corresponding pressure in the opposite direction, thus obviating, to a great extent, the danger of losing the whip. The long and short arms of the socket are, preferably, cast each in one piece.

Having thus described my invention, what ing piece 0, curved at its outer end and at-' tached to the arm A, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 16th day of August, A. D. 1873, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOHN W. H. DOUBLER.

Witnesses E. H. EWELL, FRANK METZGER. 

